He became correspondent for the Times, first in Paris then in India, where his career faltered when he was one of the few survivors of a big air crash at New Delhi in 1958. Yesterday another two Palestinians were added to the death-toll – with Hamas again claiming responsibility.Palestinians, who blame collaborators for turning over militants to the Israelis, have killed more than 500 of their own community as suspected informers during the six-year uprising against Israeli rule.In Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli undercover soldiers shot and killed Salim Muwafi, 24, a member of the mainstream Fatah ‘Hawks’ group.The renewed violence comes as latest hopes of agreement on Israeli withdrawal have been dashed. pounds 120.TREVELGUE HOTEL, Porth,nr Newquay, Cornwall, tel: 0637 872864Egon Ronay’s Ford Guide 1994’s Family Hotel of the Year, the Trevelgue gets off to a head start with its superb cliff-top position and views out to sea from 42 large family suites; most unusually, these suites can each accommodate up to two adults and four children Childcare staff look after and amuse children of all ages. And the gun-club culture is huge: not so long ago it was Britain’s second-biggest participatory sport after fishing (it has since been overtaken by darts).

At its inception, in 1968, he addressed around 75 members and at his party’s peak in the Seventies observers reckoned he could hold his annual general meeting in a telephone kiosk at Clapham Common.The son of a builder, Reginald Birch was one of five children and was raised in Kilburn, north-west London. Many is the sunlit morn upon which I have trundled up an old church path in order to peruse at my leisure an ogee arch, a collapsed periwinkle, an adumbrated quoin, all in the company of my two fellow-churchgoers: the venerable Mr Enoch Powell and that veteran man of letters, Mr Simon Heffer (67 years young, but still with a very great deal to say for himself]). He wins his gallops by 10 lengths.’
All this acceleration was needed yesterday as two furlongs out there were four in front of the chestnut colt and none of them had reputations built on capitulation. But of course I go out alone and have walked back along a country hedgerow late at night But I’m six feet tall and don’t carry a handbag. Graffiti question the Pope’s virility; the initials ‘FTP’ (the T and P stand for ‘the Pope’) are much in evidence.In one pub a drinker related: ‘Not long ago we had a few boys in here who put U2’s ‘Sunday, Bloody Sunday’ on the juke box.’ The record, a tribute to the Catholics shot by soldiers in one of the most famous incidents of Ulster’s troubles, was halted as a pint glass slammed into the machine.One of six men at the bar who chose the song complained. ‘But you might remember that there are such things as unions in the construction business in New York.’At US News, which he bought in 1984 for dollars 163m, his close involvement in the content of the Washington newsweekly raised many hackles, costing him four editors before he installed himself as ‘editor-in-chief’.

In Fat is a Feminist Issue, Orbach put slimming, body consciousness and eating disorders firmly at the centre of the political and psychological map of the modern world. His decision to leave coincides with the signing of new three-year deals by Hagen and Neil Murray.Aberdeen prolonged the wait for the Rangers supporters by beating Hearts 3-2, leaving the champions one point short of mathematical certainty. Sir: I would like to point out an error printed in your cycling article (9 April). Two Forms, the first Hepworth (of many) that visitors come across, is both inert and saccharine, a pairing of burnished carved stones that incline towards one another on a plinth. Most police don’t know what they’re there for.DH: But aren’t they given an impossible brief?MT: Of course. Small business groups have lobbied consistently for measures such as a statutory regulation of payment terms and the imposition of interest on outstanding amounts – on the basis that these measures have worked in other parts of Europe.After the Budget, Stan Mendham, chief executive of the Forum of Private Business, which has 20,770 members, said: ‘Action on late payment is the top priority for growing businesses because it would give firms an unprecedented cash-flow boost, from which jobs and investment would spring.

They were successful, except that both families were left with appallingly brain-damaged sons with no hope of improvement in their condition and a lifelong need for 24-hour care. With all this competition, it’s no good being the nice guy; you just have to keep winning. On the last occasion I visited him, a week before his death, he produced a newspaper cutting about the Gay Hussar, Soho, in the upstairs room of which, 24 years before, we had spent an enjoyable extended lunch with friends and colleagues from the ILEA discussing education. The British group needs to barge into the US managed prescriptions market and was thought to be in talks with McKesson.There was speculation it might be forced to mount a counter-bid, although its policy has, at least until recently, been aimed at partnership deals.Inchcape, the international trader, moved ahead 15p to 443p as Panmure Gordon pushed the shares, drawing attention to the possible profit bounce when the dollar recovers against the yen.